Pro Arts presents…
BREN’T LEWIIS ENSEMBLE
“Harmonic disarray and sour electro-splat seep upward and outward like a disturbing organ meat experiment going horribly awry.
In Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble’s latest reportage from the front row of a nightmarish debacle no one would want to stage, Thanksgiving is a revolting feast of Pynchon-inspired cuisine on the front edge of an exploding dirigible, yoga mats double as coffin liners, heavenly choirs are replaced by glitchy, private-press inbreds howling themselves sick in vortices of serrated cubism, and people who don’t know they no longer exist are the only ones who cry “Mortality as home entertainment? This can’t be the future. Can it? Can it?”
Dense electronic processes mingle with field recordings of machines defective and dying of old age. Alarm klaxons and calls to arms do not overpower the soundscape so much as wanly ooze from some anemic sky sphincter worthy of an Arch Oboler thriller.
The forty-minute “The Flesh Is Already Engulfing The Guns” crawls into view like a family of zombie executives exiting a fallout shelter. Nauseated screeches dry-heave at strings of metal scraping marrow-less bones into bite-sized chunks. Swarms of clinking locusts disperse above fields of plastic thrift-store detritus getting overrun from all angles by locomotives locked in emergency deceleration mode. Flightless birds elongate their synchronized death squawks and amplify their internal doom. Molecules of electronic corruption wheeze complaints to no one. Violins groan with the vigor of an old rocking chair where a corpse has been dumped. Unattended radios transmit useless advice. Drones and pulsations slowly fall apart and atomize, a mirror image of decay and putrid nothingness enveloping untethered astronauts. A portrait of the void, disembodied space globules and all.
The ensemble’s version of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem “Assassination Raga” embalms all the stripes of the rainbow that is America’s creep-show optimism with congealed blood. That the album is released on the poet’s 99th birthday is not a coincidence. ”
https://brentlewiisensemble.com/news-and-reviews
HEADBOGGLE
Derek Gedalecia, a.k.a. Headboggle, has been performing electronic keyboard-based soundscapes for several years in the Bay Area in over a hundred local performances at venues ranging from GTK to YBCA. Incorporating lowbrow with highbrow art, music, and comedy, Head Boggle’s intent is to fuse together a new ecstatic improvisational performance style with a carefully crafted musical underbed. In his formative years, Gedalecia studied classical and ragtime piano from noted ragtime composer/revivalist Dr. Brian Dykstra. .
https://headboggle.bandcamp.com/
DELETIST
1 autonomous rogue off grid BYE
Bleakhaus HELLO BleakhaustrUK records performs produces releases DELETIST das blut & zorn orkestra CTRL V 3RR0R
recently released semianimated film & soundtrack CHILDREN OF THE BLACK SUN: a graphic manifesto by BITTER PIE
received doctorate degree Henry Darger Institute for Success in the Dead Arts. CURRENTLY EMBRACES HOPELESSNESS on tour for the next rest of life
https://deletist.bandcamp.com/
Blood Of Chhinnmastika
https://bloodofchhinnamastika.bandcamp.com/releases
Cost: $7-15 sliding scale